Extraordinary Member

i am not absolutely clear (no pun intended) as to which aspect you wish to alter but, if it is the global text only, at the lower resolution, have you tried this.
Right click screen - Personalize.
Display (Bottom left)
Adjust clear type text.

New Member

I went through the ClearType settings you've mentioned but they didn't help very much. Ideally what I'm striving for is to have a clear display at a resolution around 1280x800, but when I select that resolution everything gets blurry.

As an alternative to this, I stuck with the native resolution (1680x1050) but tried the magnification setting, but it really is distracting when surfing, some elements of some sites are magnified, some aren't, etc.

The most frustrating part is that I have the same monitor and video card as I did with Vista, and I didn't have any of these issues!

Extraordinary Member

New Member

I was thinking the same thing. Under Vista, my monitor driver was one specifically for my Dell monitor. I went to the Dell website and downloaded the Win7 driver, tried updating it and Win7 says the Generic PnP monitor driver from 2006 is up to date! In Vista I had several refersh rates (70 and 75 Hertz), but with the generic driver I can only choose 59 or 60 Hertz.

New Member

I've been tinkering with the 'custom text size display' slider bar, and getting some strange results. If you select the 150% option and look at your screen, then select a custom size of 149%, the difference between the two is very large, much more than 1%! If I could find a way to make that more accurate I'd probably be able to solve this thing!